Tag: diaspora

Alquimia Liminal

Nancy Bird-Soto Concuerdo con Gloria Anzaldúa: escribir es un acto alquímico: “the act of writing is the act of making soul” (Keating 169). Lo es, porque al escribir fusionamos nuestra mente con sus ideas y pensamientos, la memoria con sus olvidos y desvíos, y el “making soul” o el conjuro de un espacio liminal de …

Dances in Cimarronaje: Sonic Errantry and the Fugitive Aesthetics of Dominican Dembow

Gisabel Leonardo The contours of Latin America and the Caribbean, the borders that define terra firma against terra infirma, are inherently unstable. For those of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and its diaspora, this is known. The incertitude of belonging, the impulse to carve out entire populations on the basis of geographic, linguistic, ethnic, and/or racial difference, …